#let me tell you about homestuck

[prokopetz]

Okay, so you know how search engine results on most popular topics have become useless because the top results are cluttered with page after page of machine-generated gibberish designed to trick people into clicking in so it can harvest their ad views?

And you know how the data sets that are used to train these gibberish-generating AIs are themselves typically machine-generated, via web scrapers using keyword recognition to sort text lifted from wiki articles and blog posts into topical subsets?

Well, today I discovered – quite by accident – that the training-data-gathering robots apparently cannot tell the difference between wiki articles about pop-psych personality typologies (e.g., Myers-Briggs type indicators, etc.) and wiki articles about Homestuck classpects.

The upshot is that when a bot that's been trained on the resulting data sets is instructed to write fake mental health resource articles, sometimes it will start telling you about Homestuck.

[benjaminutes]

Join us on TWITCH or TIKTOK LIVE JULY 26th 27th AND 28th for the LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK GAMESHOW A charity event benefiting the PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND!!! The TOP DONORS will be INVITED TO COMPETE! The AUDIENCE can donate to buy the contestants LIFELINES!

Every CONTESTANT will have 13 challenges 4 them! 5 TELL ME ABOUT HOMESTUCK challenges where you must correct an incorrect statement I make about HOMESTUCK - as well as 8 SUPER SECRET BONUS ROUNDS!!! You won't wanna miss it!

I'll be having FRIENDS OF THE SHOW, SECRET SPECIAL GUESTS as well as the TOP DONOR compete each day! Can't donate enough to be a TOP DONOR? No worries! You can still influence the game by DONATING smaller amounts to help your favorite CONTESTANTS by buying them LIFELINES:

PATRON TROLL - CONTESTANT can talk to our HOMESTUCK EXPERT for 1 MINUTE

SCRATCH - CONTESTANT can retry a challenge after failing

EXILES - TWITCH chat is READABLE for 1 MINUTE

This will all be part of the 10am-8pm pacific HOMESTUCK LIVEREAD 2024 EVENT! Each day we'll run the GAMESHOW 3 separate times with 3 separate CONTESTANTS!

[plinkoceans]

Remember these guys? Anyway. Head IMMEDIATELY to the You Can't Fight the Homestuck livestream by Benjaminutes (yeah, that old af Bro cosplayer from Vine). All donations go to Palestine Children's Relief Fund! 

IF HE REACHES MORE DONATIONS THAN LAST YEAR, which is over 13k, THIS NERD is traveling to meet PLINKOCEANS to MAKE A NEW DAMN HOMESTUCK VIDEO for the channel!!!

[relaxxattack]

hey i apologize if you've been asked this a thousand times already but i am looking to get into homestuck & am unsure of where to start ? of course the obvious answer is to Read It but i was curious if there is a primary archive or anything of the like where other important information may be stored ?

sorry for the intrusion, you are the only homestuck blog i'm familiar with x-[ thank you for your time !

aa this is such a good question!!!! i am SUCH a fan and advocate for good archiving and im really glad you came to me with this lol!

because, you should NOT READ HOMESTUCK ON THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE! not only are the games and animations all broken due to the death of flash, but there are also spoilers scattered around the pages both in edited bits and in the ads that are on the site itself

if you would like to have the true archival experience i could not recommend the unofficial homestuck collection enough!

not only does it run all of homestuck as it was originally posted, but there's ALSO settings you can turn on that will hide any spoilers and then notify you when changes to the site were made in 'real time'! (such as pages being edited, OST being posted, author QnAs, etc!)

it was even endorsed by the author herself! basically it's an insanely good resource and i don't think homestuck should be read any other way.

and here's a really good post about reading homestuck if you want to be all Educated about it.

personally, i think you just have to go into it ready to have fun. homestuck gives back to you what you give into it-- so much of it is in direct conversation with fan culture, fan theories, and so much more, and it's SO fun to read it while getting invested in certain ideas so that the story can talk back to you about it.

so basically just.... have fun!

[knotst3r1l3]

yea,,,

[suneat3rr]

I made homestuck things

[greenbeetlestew]

i infodump about homestuck history and you pretend to listen

13th of april 2009 Andrew hussie releases the first few pages of the web comic Homestuck.People both commemorate it and celebrate it every year, commemoration of the day is typically ironic and satirical.

2010, After a whole year of viewers deciding the storyline of Homestuck, Andrew Hussie completely takes over, and the last reader request is taken.

2010,The most important and most recognizable part of the comic (act 5)begins. This is also when the Homestuck fandom begins to be considered “that” annoying fandom. this annoying fandom trope is also where the phrase “LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMESTUCK” originates from, this line was typically used to imitate Homestuck fans in a satirical mocking way, poking fun about their constant need to talk about Homestuck and the cult like following it had.

2011,Often referred to as a fandom legend, a still anonymous girl is mentioned in a Tumblr post to have ‘allegedly’ attempted to dye her skin grey for a Homestuck cosplay at anime expo, this was done in a hotel bathtub. She did this By ‘allegedly’ using a mixture of water, vodka, and sharpies, filling the bathtub with it and climbing in. This becomes a very important defining moment in fandom history, with many celebrating its anniversary every year.

Also taking place at the 2011 anime expo, Homestuck fandom members film the infamous YouTube video of people passing around a bucket and spitting in it (in the middle of a family restaurant). They do this with the intention of referencing a popular headcanon of troll reproduction.

These two anime expo events solidify the horrible reputation Homestuck fans would hold to this day.

2012 the Kickstarter for a Homestuck adventure game is started, making 2.5 million dollars.

In 2013 Andrew Hussie momentarily stops updating Homestuck, this time is known as the gigapause

2014,dashcon takes place it becomes widely known as the worst convention in fandom history, as well as the closest thing to a homestuck convention to ever happen.Theres many pictures of homestuck cosplayers in the famous urine-soaked ball pit at dashcon

Homestuck goes on its final pause in 2015, this pause doesn’t end until 2016 when the final pages of homestuck are released

2016,The worlds greatest literary mistake is almost over, homestuck is coming to a end.

Homestuck 2.0 is announced in 2016 and video games,a tv series books etc are promised None of these projects ever release, infact nothing EVER comes of ‘homestuck 2.0’.

2021,Andrew Hussie essentially abandons homestuck.

2023, homestuck is updated again in october.

non dated=>>>

snoop dog reposts homestuck fanart

Broadway karkat

violent attacks with buckets

grey facepaint, EVERYWHERE

the multiple homestuck websites and messaging platforms

[jamonsetee]

I cant draw anymore!!

[mult1f4nd0mdr4g0n]

A random rushed drawing for today

Happy 413 ya all

[lavender-teardroplettes]

what’s homestuck?

Let me tell you about it! /ref

Homestuck is a flash based webcomic started April 13, 2009 that ran until April 13, 2016 written by Andrew Hussie please correct me if they go by a different name now (with two pauses in between called the Omega- and Gigapauses respectively). It’s a trash comic built on the backs of early Internet and early meme culture following a group of adolescents and space aliens and their guardians (more so focused on the alpha and beta kids and trolls). If you want to look into it further there’s a fan archive of the comic in full with working flash and an option to read the comic as if it were first coming out with a full and extensive list of triggers warnings for the content within—-

because like I said before it’s a trash comic we all shit on in one way or another, especially if this was your main fandom back in the day. Most people take the characters for loosely connected aus if I’m being honest since we were all having fun making fan content and “what if” scenarios while the pauses were happening. People might know it more by proxy from the Undertale fandom since Tobi Fox worked on Homestuck as a music composer for the most part. Megalovania was Virska’s theme before San’s, and before that was used in an Earthbound fan game. UwU

If you ever went to a con and saw a bunch of kids/teens/maybe young adults running around with candy corn colored horns and grey full body paint, chances are you’ve encountered a Homestuck in the wild.

[ihavereturnedtotmblr]

Go watch and donate the Homestuck stream for charity.

Bro 'benjaminutes' Strider is raising money for "Palestine Children's Relief Fund". Seriously, it's entertaining and it's for a good cause.

[notebookpapers]

one day when I’m an old lady I’m gonna get the sweet bro and hella jeff tattoo. and the tattoo artist will be like this old lady wants a tat that’s sick af but why on earth this design granny?? and ill look him in the eyes and tell him about homestuck but he cannot escape because he is my tattoo artist. the word has been passed on. another young man stands in his bedroom and he has been told of the horrorterrors against his will. and i will forever be the weird old lady who will forever make him remember homestuck. the life cycle is complete

[benjaminutes]

30+ hours and $16,500.69 later I have never been SO HUMBLED by this community, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for all the donations to the PCRF this year, surpassing our previous year's total by nearly $3,000!!! Now, I will sleep for 24 hours straight... right after some more thank yous! Thank you all again to everyone who came out and donated any amount of money, from a $1 to our Top 3 Donors Gxre-Bunny, TheUselessCucumber and Churro Lord all at $1,595.10 and also thank you to anyone who just told a friend or shared a post to help bring more folks to donate! THANK YOU SO MUCH! to all of my Twitch and Tiktok mods, seriously, without you guys this thing wouldn't run even 1% as smoothly as it does each year! That's Lux, Helios, Opal (who was also our patron troll), Ray, Oz, Fool, Tyr, Imp and Henry!!! THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!!!!!!

Of course, a MASSIVE thank you to WeDissentStream for having me and raising a combined total of $21,548.46 across all streamers! SUCH an incredible number to hit, and thank you to the organizers for putting on the whole thing! And finally, I want to thank all my contestants for the Let Me Tell You About Homestuck Gameshow for coming on and helping us put on an INCREDIBLY entertaining experience, you all did FANTASTIC and you're ALL winners in my eyes! And I want to round this all out by reminding you to PLEASE don't let your activism end hear, there is SO MUCH more that can be done outside of donating, calling your reps, making sure you're in line with BDS and participating in protests just to name a few!

I am so humbled by what we did here today, everyone, so let me say one last time once and for all: THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kontextmaschine]

1 just keep th1nking of worse 1nterr8c1al ntr th1ngs 2 destroy myself w1th. now there's a rel1g1ous 4ngle.

I didn't read Homestuck far enough to fully unlock this ask.

[relaxxattack]

can you ELI5 ? idk anything about Homestuck

homestuck is an online webcomic which was famous for its strange and fun storytelling methods! it incorperated a lot of reader interaction, letting the readers of the comic "play" the story like a video game and choose what the characters would do, and later started including actual flash game segments, as well as music and animation and all kinds of cool stuff comics don't usually have.

fitting with the strange storytelling style, the plot itself is ALSO about playing games, including the meta idea that the universe itself is a video game that the characters must beat. they later use these mechanics to visit other "game universes" like their own, which is why there's so much hype for the comic's alien characters.

homestuck is a strange and fun story about the very nature of stories, memeing itself to hell and back and constantly interacting with the fans via the story itself, which contributed to it blowing the fuck up in the 2010s. it's about lots of things, like child abuse, being queer, saving the world, and other coming of age externalizations popular in the YA genre.

it's also, in my opinion, really fucking fun.

here's a better post explaining the plot and here's a post about how to start reading it should you like. you can also check out my tag #let me tell you about homestuck

have a great day!

[gothicholast]

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